The leaky house happened to rain overnight, and the broken boat encountered a head wind. Both things are extremely tricky, food is the heaven of the people, and it must not be ignored, and the army is the foundation of Li Xin's survival, and it is even more sloppy. Both of these matters are near-term worries, and both urgently require him to come up with a feasible solution.

"How much food does the trading company have? If necessary, you can take out the emergency response, and you should always be able to survive this difficult period. ”

Huang Sheng got a lot of unburned grain from the Xuanfu, and a large part of it was stored in Zhenyuwei, in case of a crisis in Taiyuan, it could be used to help the victims and stabilize the situation. But this construction was immediately resolutely opposed by Tian Fuzhen, the prefect of Taiyuan.

"Taiyuan's grain is roughly divided into three parts, one for the army, two for the people, and three for the clan, of which the clan has enough income to be self-sufficient and does not need local burdens, the focus is on the army and the people, and the difficulties are also in the army and the people."

Tian Fuzhen paused, sorted out the thoughts in his mind and continued: "After all, the trading company is private property, and it is inseparable from the general......

There is no need to say it clearly here, the Ming Dynasty was originally suspicious of the generals, and the generals sold their private property to the people in the army, and when the time came, they were caught by people with ulterior motives in the court, but they were extremely passive.

"What if this matter is promoted in the name of the Shanxi Political Envoy?"

Master Guo, who has always been reluctant to take a stand in this kind of people's livelihood event, said: "How sure is it that the general can persuade the shareholders of several major trading companies to agree to this matter?" ”

From spring to summer, the Mongolian Tatars outside the border wall ravaged Yan zhòng, and the goods of the trading company were repeatedly robbed, and the losses were quite small, and a large part of the grain obtained by the Xuanfu, including Huang Sheng, hoped to sell it at a high price to the Manchu Tatars, who were also short of grain, so as to make a big profit.

If, according to Li Xin's words, the trading company has no fame and fortune, which is obviously not in line with the principle of profit-seeking by businessmen, presumably the resistance to this matter will not be small. Li Xin, who asked this question, was a little entangled in his heart, and he calmed down, ready to think of a more secure way to use this batch of grain for the people of Taiyuan Mansion.

Gao Shiming said with a smile: "I think General Li is used to solving everything alone, don't forget that there is still the imperial court standing behind you, and there is a solid backing for Long Live to do it!" ”

"Do you really have to count on the imperial court?"

Li Xin didn't say the second half of the sentence, if the imperial court could really count on it, how could so many people die in the drought in Shaanxi and Henan for many years, and how could hundreds of thousands of people rebel and become thieves who have troubled the world?

"How do you know if you don't try?"

Gao Shiming seemed to be smiling. Tian Fuzhen agreed with this opinion, "It should indeed be reported to the imperial court, it is not easy for the mess we took over to have a few days, and Taiyuan Mansion feeds almost half of the people of Shanxi, and the imperial court has no reason to sit idly by and ignore the disaster that is about to happen." ”

Such questioning of the imperial court, put aside in the past, Tian Fuzhen will not say it in public, but after experiencing several ups and downs in life, he has seen through the style of the court, I am afraid that even if he goes to the court, the emperor in the Forbidden City will be unable to pay attention to it. However, if there are dates or not, you have to hit a rod, what if you can poke down a big surprise? Therefore, he very much agrees with Gao Shiming's opinion.

"As for the envoy sent to the court, there is one person who is a good candidate?"

"Who?" Li Xin asked subconsciously, and said in unison with Gao Shiming.

"Song Xianli!"

Even if Li Xindang remembered it, it was the court official who tried the case of Lu Jinji's evil breed Lu Zhaolin's rape and murder of the cook Honggu, and this person's principle and sense of responsibility were really suitable for the role of entering Beijing to fight for reason.

After the plan for the relief of the letter to the imperial court was decided, Li Xin carefully inquired about the war in the south, and the thieves of Zhang and Li, who had suddenly rekindled in late spring and early summer, quickly shrank again under the blow of Yang Sichang's overall control.

Among them, two people stood out, one was Zuo Liangyu, and the other surprised Li Xin, who turned out to be his cousin Li Yong.

Zuo Liangyu got King Shen's soldiers and horses all the way into Tongguan, chased Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan, and killed the thieves all the way. And Li Xin's cousin Li Yong originally led the deputy secretary of Beizhen to Shanxi, but he accidentally killed the Yellow River all the way, gathered a large number of Ming troops along the way, and fought two decisive victories in Chen Liu and Yuncheng in Kaifeng Mansion, which was appreciated by Yang Sichangze, who was sitting in Kaifeng City, and appointed him to lead the troops to chase Li Zicheng all the way into the mountains of Hubei again.

This made Li Xin feel a strange feeling, and for a while he became interested in this cousin he had never met. But when Tian Fuzhen learned about this, he solemnly warned Li Xin that this matter would do him all kinds of harm and no benefit!

Li Xinqi said: "Don't be alarmist, can it be a bad thing for Ben Shuai's cousin to be rewarded for his meritorious service?" Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, with Li Yong and "him" are also connected by blood, they are natural allies in politics, and he has gained a foothold in the DPRK and China for his meritorious service, which is a mutually beneficial situation between the two.

Tian Fuzhen continued to splash a basin of cold water.

"With the merits of the handsome cousin, I believe that there will soon be a good story of two handsome families, and Tian has to congratulate him!"

On the surface, these words were congratulations, but when he entered Li Xin's second middle school, his taste changed, and he suddenly woke up. If there is a more obedient and less experienced person who is as good at fighting as himself, then his uniqueness and irreplaceable advantage will be lost in the court.

And due to factors such as background and many coincidences, Li Xin had an extremely bad reputation in the imperial court, and his popularity and reputation among the civil and military officials were even worse to the extreme. This sudden idea made Li Xin break out in a cold sweat, and then thought of the secret report he had received before, after the reinstatement of the Xuanda Governor Hong Chengchou was seeking to bring the infantry battalion and cavalry battalion of the Three Guards Army in Xuanfu under his command, an unprecedented sense of crisis from within was enveloped in Li Xin's heart.

"I believe that the day of the wedding between the general and the lord of Xinle is not far away!"

Tian Fuzhen added another sentence, of course Li Xin understood what it meant to marry the lord of Xinle.

"If the general doesn't plan early, I'm afraid there will be many crises, and it will be another bloody storm!"

To tell the truth, these continuous threats from within made Li Xin very annoying, and Li Yong, who was related by blood, won many battles, and it was reasonable for him to be rewarded for his duties, and he certainly would not be stupid enough to be an enemy of Li Xin. But as the saying goes, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and there will never be fewer people who take advantage of the relationship between the two to make a fuss.

But then, Li Xin laughed dumbly.

"Are you and I too worried?"

Tian Fuzhen was noncommittal, he had been in this kind of deceit in the first half of his life, and he was defeated in a complex and sinister struggle, and finally he was relegated from a dignified high-ranking official to the border wall of the north to become a small official.

Therefore, no one can better understand the sinister in the officialdom struggle than him, and it is even more difficult for figures like Li Xin to gain a foothold.

The next day, Li Xin made a decision that surprised everyone, he prepared to go north to Sanwei to inspect and comfort the Ming border troops stationed inside and outside the border wall.

The Zhenyuwei, Yanghewei, and Gaoshanwei under the jurisdiction of Sanwei were originally subordinate to Datong Town and were under the jurisdiction of Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong. However, Zhu Youzhen, the great son of the Great Tomorrow, exerted his unprecedented creative power and forcibly made a general soldier of the three guards, and Li Xin still served as the chief soldier of the three guards after he became the chief military officer of Shanxi Town. In other words, his jurisdiction also contains a long border wall from Xinpingbao to Yanghekou.

Tian Fuzhen understood that Li Xin finally recognized the crisis he hinted at, and instead of squatting in Taiyuan Mansion waiting for others to come to the door with trouble, it was better to take the initiative to stabilize his own foundation. It can be said that Li Xin's handling method is very temperamental to him, although this person is a rough person, but there are many less hypocrisy and insidious things common in officialdom in his actions.

For example, Zhang Sizhi, Liu Yuliang, Yang Sichang and others, the style of attacking political opponents is nothing more than stumbling and making small moves, digging pits and forcing you to jump. Although Li Xin is quite passive in dealing with it, he often uses a dignified and upright method to make his cunning methods abort one by one, which may be the contest between conspiracy and yang conspiracy.

Li Xin went north in a very low-key manner, and Taiyuan City was handed over to Tian Fuzhen and Guo Binghuan, Tian Fuzhen was responsible for the overall situation of Taiyuan Prefecture, and the gendarmerie battalion was directly dispatched by him during this period. And Guo Binghuan, the master of Guo, is in charge of the overall work of the trading companies inside and outside Taiyuan Mansion, so naturally he can't take him away. What's more, there is Huang Shengzai who runs the border land in the north, which can become a big help for Li Xin.

Li Xin and Song Xianli, who was about to go to Beijing, left Taiyuan City at almost the same time, but in different directions, Li Xin went straight north after leaving Taiyuan, while Song Xianli went east, preparing to enter Beizhili from Jingcheng, and then go north to Jingshi.

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Xuanfu, after the arrival of the new governor of Xuanda, Hong Chengchou, received ultra-high standard treatment, especially Mi Yan's performance in the Xuanfu War. Although they were awarded for perjury in the jury, in the official narrative they were completely exemplary of serving the imperial court.

Such a strange team composed of scholars and scholars is naturally particularly valued by Hong Chengchou, who is also a literati, and even personally met with Lu Huizhong, the leader of the field service team. When Hong Chengchou learned that Lu Huizhong was still the son of Lu Sizhen, the envoy of Shanxi, he was even more impressed, and promised that he would ask the court for merit for them, and let their merits reach the heavens.

And this kind of incident in which the scholars collectively put pen to paper and made great contributions to Rong will indeed boost the low morale of the court, and more importantly, when today's Zi Zhu Youzhen learned about it, he was excited and sleepless all night.

Lu Huizhong's frustration with a worrying future due to being assigned to the side wall was swept away after being received by Hong Chengchou, but Mi Yan, who was the first contributor to the Zhangjiakou blockade, did not think much of Lu Huizhong.